Common Sense Is Instinct
October 27, 2008 by BloggerNewbie
“Monday Motivation!”
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Josh Billings
Common Sense – noun
sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
(Dictionary.com)
People are often surprised when they encounter “educated” people and they demonstrate little common sense. Often professional - doctor, lawyer, teacher, etc, - are expected to know their own profession as well as others.
People that are native to the country or small towns are comfortable and familiar with small town surroundings.
People that are native to the city are comfortable with their surroundings.
You’ve heard the saying “you can take the girl out of the city but you can’t take the city out of the girl”? You have a certain natural instinct based on your habitat and your common sense is based on both!
What might be common sense to you is not necessarily common sense to me. Have you ever met people that just seem to know the right thing to say? The right thing to do? And it seems to come naturally to them?
Do you think common sense is hereditary? Do you think common sense can be taught?
What do you think?
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I’m pretty sure it can be learned.
I SO relate with “can’t take the city out of the girl”…
In Firefox, the comment “submit” button floats in the middle of the text box… you should fix it.
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I’m the opposite, it’s hard to get this country girl to the city!
My submit button is moody! I also use firefox and the submit button is where it is supposed to be right now. I thought it had to do with the browser or the size of your screen and on some posts the button would be in the middle of the box until I had a few comments! I have no idea! But I am working on it - Thanks.
I love this theme but it is difficult to deal with. I practically had to rewrite the css to allow graphics on the front page! Like I have time for this!
Thanks for the comments!